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Milestones in the development of smart card technology: 1970 - Dr. Kunitaka Arimura of Japan filed the first and only patent on the smart card concept. 1974 - Roland Moreno of France filed the original patent for the IC card, later dubbed the smart card. 1977 - Three commercial manufacturers, Bull CP8, SGS Thomson, and Schlumberger began developing the IC card. 1979 - Motorola developed the first secure single chip microcontroller for use in French banking. 1982 - Field testing of serial memory phone cards took place in France-the world's first major IC card test.
ATI Technologies, best known for their computer processors, developed the Catalyst Control Center (CCC) to complement their line of Radeon video cards. It first became available as a device driver and utility software package in 2002 with the release of the Radeon 8500.